The David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center at Pocantico
Free; registration required.
The 2025 Pocantico Fall Forum takes you inside the web of conspiracy behind the brutal 1998 murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi, who was killed just days after presenting a report implicating Guatemala’s military in the atrocities of that country’s civil war.
The event begins with a screening of The Art of Political Murder, a 2020 documentary film based on the book of the same name by Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Francisco Goldman. The 90-minute film follows a team of brave Guatemalan investigators who risked their lives to uncover the truth about the bishop's death and hold the perpetrators accountable.
RBF Central America program director Arturo Aguilar—one of the investigators featured in the film—will then join Goldman to discuss the ongoing quest for justice in Guatemala.
This event will be followed by a reception in the DR Center Gallery, now showing Shen Wei: Still/Moving.
Presented in partnership with the RBF Central America program.
Francisco Goldman
Author
Francisco Goldman has published five novels and two books of nonfiction. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Berlin Fellow, and a fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. He is the founder and codirector of the Premio Aura Estrada, an award for women of the Americas 35 and under who write creative prose in Spanish, in honor of his late wife.
Arturo Aguilar
Program Director, Central America
Arturo Aguilar is the RBF Central America program director, a lawyer, investigator, and political strategist with over 20 years championing justice and democracy in Latin America. At just 18 years old, Arturo was instrumental in solving the murder of Bishop Gerardi during his time working for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations in Guatemala.